Posted on 01/17/2015 9:40:30 AM PST by PAR35
Widespread confusion persists among merchants over Dallas’ new carryout bag ordinance, even as the law appears to be successfully moving shoppers away from throwaway bags.
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Half Price Books, for example, was erroneously told that its new reusable bags, which cost 10 times as much as the old bags, didn’t have the right wording. Kroger was chided because signs in its parking lots weren’t in Spanish as well as English.
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Half Price Books, after studying the ordinance closely, decided to invest in more expensive reusable bags to provide to shoppers. So people there were surprised when one of their Dallas stores received a warning for not having the right information on the bags.
A code inspector told store officials that their bags had to display the bag thickness. That’s true for single-use bags, but not reusable ones.
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It doesn’t help that city officials still won’t clarify some aspects of the ordinance.
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We buy about 2 cases of “Science Diet “ dog food for our dogs about twice a month. Invariably the cases are on the store shelf “Spanish side out”.
Now, I don’t know how much of a rush they have on Science Diet, by Hispanics ( who don’t speak English) here in Georgia, but to retaliate I just destroy the order display on the shelves.
I’ve spoken to a few employees there about it, who seem to care less, so this my own little revenge.
The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few.
Or that third one ... for the dog so he doesn't howl ;-)
I’m sure that behind all this love of momma earth, we’ll find the crony corporations looking for a way to get more to share between them and the taxman. What a ploy! Charge for a bag...and make it required! And give the taxman a cut!
If they could only find a way to make you buy your own shelf stocker.
Next will be a fee for using a shopping cart.
What you said. I speak Spanish, too, and used to tutor ESL students until I ran out of legal ones (I refuse to assist illegals).
Don’t give my business to bilingual-signed businesses. But that’s only gonna work for a while. One day all of the businesses will have signs in both languages.
Demographics is destiny and us native born Americans aren’t having enough babies to stop that train wreck.
they are unsafe to reuse unless washed each time
At any rate, the point of this post is to share a bit of knowledge to those of us trapped behind enemy lines (full disclosure-Californian, here). She has a squirt bottle that she fills 30% bleach, 70% water, and after a trip with her “green” bags, she turns them inside out, and squirts them with the mixture (meat, vegetable bags, etc, not dry or canned goods). She swears by it.
SIGH.... Remember when this was a free country ?
I speak Spanish, too,
She never came back. Neither have I !
Exactly the way to fight the law. Make it cost something to the market to continue this stupidity, and suddenly they'll find some interest in getting this law repealed. Exactly my plan for when this law goes into effect in all of California. I've already had Target and other stores in the People's Republic Of Pasadena bag it rather than refund the purchase. One tried to sneak a bag fee onto my bill, and I told them they can refund the entire purchase, or they can refund the bag fee - they refunded the bag fee.
My ancestors immigrated from Ireland.
I see don't signs in parking lots in Irish.
(/s)
Why stop at Spanish? Why not every single dialect on the planet. Make them add Klingon and Elfish. Add raised dots for Braille. Heck, throw in sign language and don't stop at American sign language. Nope, can't shrink the fonts for all those languages to appear because then they'd discriminate against those who have sight problems. Wait, gotta place a sound chip in their bags so the hearing impaired and those who can't read won't be discriminated against. And rainbow colors because just a white bag is racist.
Of that fee, 4.5 cents goes to the city
IOW, it's all a scam for the city to make money.
Here's an idea. Decline the extra expense of a bag and make the store carry out your purchases to the car for you. Sure, that only aggravates the employees but it's taking a stand. Of course, the blame lays at the feet of the idiots who screamed paper bags were evil.
Austin had a fuss over these bags. What ever came of that?
I never heard how Austin is handling it. What’s the latest?
A few years ago, our McDonalds put up a Spanish menu. It was quickly replaced with all English.
The city council of my California town voted to enact a plastic bag ban, and a bag store provided fee.
When up for reelection, two of them were voted out. Our town has decided we don’t trust city council to decide on our behalf.
Thank goodness that insanity hasn’t reached our neck of the woods... yet. Garbage all goes into one bag and picked up in the same truck. No such thing as this reusable bag thing. Many years ago, there was a metal recycling center but there wasn’t any profit so it closed. No coke can recycling place, either.
The only problem is that plastic bags at our one and only grocery are so thin they break too easily so you have to double bag which defeats the purpose and there are too many holes in the bottom that we can’t use but 1 out of 20 for litter.
Sorry, my electric bill needs to be paid with that $38.34 plus S&H.
I used to work for a jobs project and it was amazing how many, “No speak English” workers suddenly were fluent in English starting at noon every Friday because they wanted their paychecks before 5 pm.
That was also the job where I got into trouble for firing the local NAAPC president’s son for sleeping in the janitor’s closet. Yep, he was back on the job before I got back to the office and you know who was called on the carpet. I really should have immediately kicked back in the supply closet and then yelled discrimination if anyone raised an eyebrow.
Ultimately, if enough fight back, it will be cheaper for the stores to either lobby for laws to be repealed, or seek a solution at the ballot box. Not so shockingly, few politicians in California even bothered to mention the issue in campaigns... They wouldn’t want their own nanny state ideas challenged.
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